Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Abrahamic Religions, Karl Jaspers
19 Jan 2018
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There are three "abrahamic" religions: christianity, islam, judaism. Many of the world"s major conflicts are defined by religious difference: war on "terror" / jihad, palestine. The idea of definition: defining something as giving it necessary and sufficient conditions. "unmarried" is condition of bachelor and "male" is condition of bachelor. "unmarried and male" are a sufficient condition of bachelor. Individual & private affair: belief, faith in the improvable, supernatural, god(s, awe - holy terror, essential to life: answer to nihility (the answer to human existence, eschatology: afterlife, ritual, priests/shamans, moral law. None of these features are present in every religion. There is no necessary condition, there are no necessary and sufficient conditions. Some of our concepts lack crisp boundaries, they are sometimes called: cluster concepts. Religion has long history, it has meant different things at different times in different places: evolution of religion.
